Art Finksays:

August 19, 2011 12:30 pm

rezmansays:

August 19, 2011 1:08 pm

Wow! now there’s something you don’t see every day. We get to see some great street scenes from various time periods, but few vintage wrecking yard photos,and in color to boot. Look at all the saveable parts!

Looks like mostly pre-war iron. Products of the post-war optimism of the early 50’s.

marcussays:

August 19, 2011 2:35 pm

Ol' Shel'says:

August 19, 2011 6:30 pm

I suppose that today’s cars will someday be regarded in the same way, but it’s hard for me to accept.

Will an industry spring up to replicate the computer chips, control modules, and airbags of today’s cars? (the stuff that’s likely to crap out) It’s hard for me to imagine, but I suppose that this stuff will only become cheaper over time, IF someone bothers to make these parts.

Old cars are so basic that low-tech methods can keep them going. Folks can understand carburetors, cams, and mufflers. Modern electronics and emissions controls are another thing, entirely.

Jim Macdonaldsays:

August 19, 2011 7:08 pm

Andresays:

August 19, 2011 8:57 pm

So many years ago, when I was in high school, there was a wrecking yard east of Rouyn (now Rouyn-Noranda) Quebec. shloads of old cars. back then, in the late sixties, the place was full of cars from the forties, fifties and sixties.

Then one day, or for a week or so, they brought in a bunch of heavy equipment. And they bulldozed the whole place flat. New dirt on top of the old cars. Environmental laws? Not back then.

The yard is still there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6AFag8SdY , but it’s your standard yard now. If you go down the highway to the left, you see their fence, which goes quite straight and level, even though the road dips and rises.

Bryan Gsays:

August 19, 2011 11:34 pm

Through the 50s there was a county dumpsite near my home (before my time, though). When the new highway was built in ’57 they say it was all buried, including some Model T Fords. All still there, many feet below the road.